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John Woo's "Fairy Tail" Re-released in Theaters: Caliber Like Air

John Woo's "Fairy Tail" Re-released in Theaters: Caliber Like Air
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A story of supercops full of fireworks and relentless rhythm, the Hong Kong filmmaker's 1992 feature, one of the greatest action films of all time, is being re-released in a restored version.
Chow Yun-fat plays a hotheaded cop chasing a criminal. (Metropolitan FilmExport)

The re-release of Hardly Anything is a big news: a chance to see one of the greatest action films of all time in a restored version – a study in movement, gun in hand, worthy of being hung in a museum alongside Degas ballerinas and futuristic canvases. It also marks the end of an editorial imbroglio that sees the world rights to John Woo 's film, along with a hundred titles from Hong Kong's golden age of cinema in the 1980s and 1990s (including classics like Tsui Hark's Chinese Ghost Story trilogy, Peking Opera Blues , and Ringo Lam's City on Fire ), finally released after being monopolized for twenty years by a Chinese real estate consortium, which didn't care if their treasures were available in theaters or streaming.

But what is an action film? Athletic expenditure of energy, chases, destruction, battles whose stakes have shifted – good versus evil in the 80s, real versus virtual since the 2000s – even if bodies are still their theater of operations. With the first two Crime Syndicates (1986, 1987) and <

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